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Today, ground-truth generation uses data sets annotated by cloud-based annotation services. These services rely on human annotation, which can be prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we consider the problem of hybrid human-machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hang Qiu , Krishna Chintalapudi , Ramesh Govindan

Fully convolutional networks (FCN) have achieved great success in human parsing in recent years. In conventional human parsing tasks, pixel-level labeling is required for guiding the training, which usually involves enormous human labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zhonghua Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

Most existing crowd counting methods require object location-level annotation, i.e., placing a dot at the center of an object. While being simpler than the bounding-box or pixel-level annotation, obtaining this annotation is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yinjie Lei , Yan Liu , Pingping Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

Recent generative data augmentation methods conditioned on both image and text prompts struggle to balance between fidelity and diversity, as it is challenging to preserve essential image details while aligning with varied text prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianchen Zhao , Xuanbai Chen , Zhihua Li , Jun Fang , Dongsheng An , Xiang Xu , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing

Dataset distillation aims to create a small and highly representative synthetic dataset that preserves the essential information of a larger real dataset. Beyond reducing storage and computational costs, related approaches offer a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zhe Li , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz

Human de-occlusion, which aims to infer the appearance of invisible human parts from an occluded image, has great value in many human-related tasks, such as person re-id, and intention inference. To address this task, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Guoqiang Liang , Jiahao Hu , Qingyue Wang , Shizhou Zhang

In this paper, we propose to employ semantic segmentation to improve person-related attribute prediction. The core idea lies in the fact that the probability of an attribute to appear in an image is far from being uniform in the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Mahdi M. Kalayeh , Mubarak Shah

Detecting semantic parts of an object is a challenging task in computer vision, particularly because it is hard to construct large annotated datasets due to the difficulty of annotating semantic parts. In this paper we present an approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Yutong Bai , Qing Liu , Lingxi Xie , Weichao Qiu , Yan Zheng , Alan Yuille

Natural image matting is a fundamental and challenging computer vision task. It has many applications in image editing and composition. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have achieved great improvements in image matting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Guowei Chen , Yi Liu , Jian Wang , Juncai Peng , Yuying Hao , Lutao Chu , Shiyu Tang , Zewu Wu , Zeyu Chen , Zhiliang Yu , Yuning Du , Qingqing Dang , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu

Advances in machine learning have produced systems that attain human-level performance on certain visual tasks, e.g., object identification. Nonetheless, other tasks requiring visual expertise are unlikely to be entrusted to machines for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Ronald T. Kneusel , Michael C. Mozer

Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ning Xu , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

Pathological is crucial to cancer diagnosis. Usually, Pathologists draw their conclusion based on observed cell and tissue structure on histology slides. Rapid development in machine learning, especially deep learning have established…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Jiangbo Shi , Zeyu Gao , Haichuan Zhang , Pargorn Puttapirat , Chunbao Wang , Xiangrong Zhang , Chen Li

Image matting refers to extracting precise alpha matte from natural images, and it plays a critical role in various downstream applications, such as image editing. Despite being an ill-posed problem, traditional methods have been trying to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jizhizi Li , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Sketches, with their expressive potential, allow humans to convey the essence of an object through even a rough contour. For the first time, we harness this expressive potential to improve segmentation performance in challenging tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ying Zang , Runlong Cao , Jianqi Zhang , Yidong Han , Ziyue Cao , Wenjun Hu , Didi Zhu , Lanyun Zhu , Zejian Li , Deyi Ji , Tianrun Chen

Automatically generating a natural language description of an image has attracted interests recently both because of its importance in practical applications and because it connects two major artificial intelligence fields: computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Zhaowen Wang , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

Collecting fine-grained labels usually requires expert-level domain knowledge and is prohibitive to scale up. In this paper, we propose Attribute Mix, a data augmentation strategy at attribute level to expand the fine-grained samples. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Hao Li , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

The requirement of large amounts of annotated images has become one grand challenge while training deep neural network models for various visual detection and recognition tasks. This paper presents a novel image synthesis technique that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Chuhui Xue

Machine learning has been widely adopted for medical image analysis in recent years given its promising performance in image segmentation and classification tasks. As a data-driven science, the success of machine learning, in particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chengliang Dai , Shuo Wang , Yuanhan Mo , Kaichen Zhou , Elsa Angelini , Yike Guo , Wenjia Bai

Automatic photo adjustment is to mimic the photo retouching style of professional photographers and automatically adjust photos to the learned style. There have been many attempts to model the tone and the color adjustment globally with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Seonghyeon Nam , Seon Joo Kim

When developing new large language models (LLMs), a key step is evaluating their final performance, often by computing the win-rate against a reference model based on external feedback. Human feedback is the gold standard, particularly for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Zhaoyi Zhou , Yuda Song , Andrea Zanette